4.07 Quiz Legacies

Question: What was the greatest difference in the electorate of the late 1820s compared to the electorate at the beginning of the century?

Answer: Many more people could vote because suffrage was almost universal for white men.

Question: What was unique about John Quincy Adams’s election to the presidency?

Answer: He was elected by the House of Representatives, not the Electoral College.

Question: What were some long term effects of Andrew Jackson’s election in 1828?

Answer: Modern political parties and campaign tactics grew.

Question: Which ideas describe the beliefs of Whigs?

Group A:

favored higher protective tariffs, supported a national banking system, wanted federal funds for internal improvement

Group B: feared a mixed economy, were proponents of slavery, supported western expansion

Answer: Group A

Question: The ideas described in Group B would most likely be the beliefs of which political party?

Answer: Democrat

Question: What issue influenced President Jackson to veto the Maysville Road Bill?

Answer: whether internal improvements within states should be federally funded

Question: What word expresses the idea that a state could declare that federal legislation unconstitutional and could disregard it?

Answer: nullification

Question: Why was it threatening to the United States that one or more of the states could declare that they would disregard federal legislation?

Answer: because such acts could dissolve the Union itself

Question: What are some aspects of the modern American political party system that began during the Jackson era?

Answer: widespread campaigns for the popular vote, including fliers, slogans, and songs

Question: What was Jackson’s policy toward the Indians?

Answer: Jackson believed in Indian removal to free their lands for development.